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Tennessee Senate passes bill banning chemtrails (www.tennessean.com)

submitted 7 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 108 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

The law and its premise is nuts, lets just get that out of the way first.

"The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited," the bill reads.

So on one hand this is a reading about banning any efforts of geoengineering. But modern day airplanes already dump "chemical compounds" into Tennessee airspace today as part of jet engine exhaust. The argument would be "oh, planes are okay because they're not dumping to affect weather even though those gases are affecting the weather via climate change." Doesn't that argument open up license for anyone to dump whatever they want (including geoengineering materials) if they can claim that isn't their primary purpose?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean, planes already inject, release, or disperse a lot of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances into the atmosphere, namely CO2 and water, which is why there are contrails.

Did Tennessee just ban airplanes?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“With the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of sunlight.”

I’m pretty sure they just made it so polluters are fine if the they are just doing it to pollute and don’t give a fuck about climate change

[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Seeding clouds for rain definitely affects weather, so I guess that's illegal now?

[–] CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

*instructions unclear - CO2 emissions violate this new law; henceforth, airplanes are illegal in Tennessee

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So doing it to make the friggin frogs gay is OK?

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Damn.

That is WAAAY moar worser...

You know that tornadoes are already prevented through cloud-alteration, right?

This would criminalize that?

We need to criminalize incompetence-in-authority!!

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[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

wouldnt that be great! some local citizen should sue an airline, using this bill, for affecting the climate.

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[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 90 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Fucking Chemtrails. I have MS and one of the times I was in a physical rehabilitation clinic, relearning how to walk, I had a nurse who believed in chemtrails. She asked if I realized that my MS was caused by chemtrails. I was taken aback. I was actively playing civ with a friend who heard my side of the conversation. After she said that, I had a short conversation with her about how chemtrails aren't real. She said "Well I guess all those congressional hearings I watched were fake." To which I said that we are never going to agree on this and it's better to just stop talking so we don't have an argument. She basically agreed and thankfully she was gone by the time I needed my MS meds that evening. Chemtrails are BS and yet so many people believe they're real, even in professions that should understand they're not real, that it is genuinely depressing.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 64 points 7 months ago (4 children)

A lot of nurses are dumb as shit. I've also met M.D.s who were seriously fucking stupid people.

[–] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago (7 children)

M.D. here and I feel like I should defend myself but all I can think of was this highly trained doc who fought the hospital administration about having to wear masks, in the hospital, during peak Covid. I mean he was actually one of many but what made him stand out was that his wife was in our ICU. With Covid. Yes he continued to fight masking even as his own wife was near death in the ICU.

So, yeah.

[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Well he can just fuck right off

…like, out of the hospital

…preferably out of his profession entirely, if possible

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I say it all the time, you can go to school for a long time and learn nothing about empathy or compassion.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The doofy thing is neurotoxins in aviation engine fumes are 100% a real thing, but it's not in the white lines you see behind jets, it's from small planes burning leaded AVGAS. There's a mandate to find a replacement for 100LL by 2030, but we're still burning leaded gasoline in lots of GA planes.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Which is very characteristic of the Conspiracy minded, they occasionally have a kernel of truth and then turn it up to 11.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

that's disturbing, I'm very sorry you had to deal with that, having someone you were supposed to trust with your health, who suddenly pulled back the curtain and revealed themselves as an utter moron.

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 56 points 7 months ago

Breaking news: Party that built its entire platform on a stupid conspiracy theory now expanding platform to other stupid conspiracy theories.

[–] babypigeon@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do they just keep going backwards?

[–] D1G17AL@kbin.social 16 points 7 months ago

A stupid population is easier to control.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 46 points 7 months ago (3 children)

states to visit: ~~Tennessee~~

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

~~Florida~~

~~Texas~~

~~Oklahoma~~

~~Alabama~~

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget Idaho

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You know, I overnighted in Idaho twice a couple of years ago, when driving across the country. Both times I stopped in a Lolo National Forest and camped, saw no one, spoke to no one.

I'm thinking that was probably the best case scenario. I'm quite certain I didn't even stop for fuel within Idaho's borders.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I live in Jackson, Wyoming. We and Idaho have twin Teton Counties which are affectionately referred to as "Wydaho". It is, with no hyperbole, the greatest place I have ever lived in. The problem is always the psychotic state government. The locals are actually VERY nice, especially on the less crowded Idaho side.

EDIT: The parts of Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee I have seen are also very beautiful.

[–] Jaderick@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

The states themselves are beautiful, they’re just run by the trashiest people in the US

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[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

And it sucks. We loved going to Nashville and other parts for concerts, the food, etc but we can't support this insanity. We decided to nix Tennessee with the last big news story and now this.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

That's an easy promise to keep, because there won't be any jet planes flying in or out of the state due to chemtrails LOL

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 7 months ago

Tennessee. Passing legislation that regulates imagination.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Oh good. Mission accomplished. I guess they'll have time now to go after the real issues, like... What's inside everyone's pants when going to the bathroom. Or making sure women don't have access to health care when needed. Even ensuring priests are in every school...

[–] hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Christ we have created a dumbass country

[–] rdyoung@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not exactly. The issue is that we have let the idiot's take control. We have let the idea of democracy and civility lead us to this mess. Those of us with working brains need to start yelling louder than the morons and tell them to sit down and shut the fuck up because the adults are taking back control.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can't control a cult because they reinforce each other constantly. It's like trying to reform an alcoholic when all his friends, co-workers and associates are drunks and he lives right above a bar.

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[–] hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

Is it working?

Or have we defunded education and science for 50 years, and now we have a nation of idiots?

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[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its about time, maybe now my wife will come back and listen to me knowing that we can finally live with clean air and no more frogs turnin gay

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The bill would have some merit if it just hadn't tacked on the chemtrail nonsense. The issue of geoengineering and how one group or country's activities can affect others negatively is valid concern, but it goes far beyond protecting a single state within its borders. Is Tennessee going to sue states west and south of them because weather movement there ends up spawning tornadoes in TN? The environment is shared, we all have to act together.

[–] hypnotoad__@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago

Lol you assume they understand words, consequences, correlations, and causality. They understand nothing other than "what's mine is mine and fuck you"

This bill was nothing other than idiots discussing chemicals, we all know this, don't pretend they were almost smart. They aren't.

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[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

In related news, The boogeyman, Sasquach, and Godzilla are also forbidden to enter Tennessee. The rainbow has been officially reclaimed from the homosexuals that stole it from God, but the bill to build a wall to keep out the gay frogs died in committee over funding issues (Mexico refused to pay for it).

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Guess I’m not flying to Tennessee because my plane makes condensation.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Now can we pass some legislation preventing corruption? Or helping families with kitchen table economics? No? oh, okay.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

In a perfect world, all the large airlines would boycott the state.

[–] RockyC@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

I feel safer already. /s

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wait, what? Chemtrail is real?!?!

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 18 points 7 months ago

In the sense that water vapor and engine exhaust are real

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 8 points 7 months ago

Relax, it’s a brand of granola that contains small pieces of plastic.

…I’m kidding, it’s worse, it’s the conspiracy one.

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